Andrew F
Andrew F. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
San José State University San José, California, 95192-0112
Office: (408) 924-5378 Fax: (408) 924-5396
Email: wooda@email.sjsu.edu Web:
Academic History
Ph.D. 1998 Ohio University
Rhetoric and Historiography
Dissertation:
"Spaghetti dinners and fireflies in a jar":
Shaping paradoxical places and spaces in Disney's Celebration
Chair: Roger Aden
M.A. 1995 Ohio University
Rhetoric and Public Address
Masters Project:
House Speaker Henry Clay's nationalism as unification:
An extension of transcendent eloquence
Advisor: Roger Aden
B.A. 1994 Berry College
English and Communication Arts - cum laude
Major Emphasis: Broadcasting/Speech
Minor Emphasis: Political Science
A.A. 1992 St. Petersburg Junior College - Clearwater Campus
Major Emphasis: Mass Communication - high honors
Certificate. 1986-1987 Defense Information School
Fort Benjamin Harris, Indianapolis, Indiana
Major Emphasis: Journalism, public affairs, and shipboard broadcasting
Academic Positions
Associate Professor, San José State University, Department of Communication Studies, 8/04-
Assistant Professor, San José State University, Department of Communication Studies, 8/98-8/04
Teaching Associate, Ohio University, School of Interpersonal Communication, 8/94-8/98
Courses Taught
San José State University, San José, CA
Department of Communication Studies
COMM 20 Public Speaking
COMM 41 Critical Decision Making in Small Groups
COMM 101 Introduction to Communication Studies
COMM 105 Communication, Self, and Society
COMM 120 Persuasive Speaking
COMM 149 Rhetoric and Public Life
COMM 171 Visual Communication
COMM 175 Nonverbal Communication
COMM 181 Internet Communication
COMM 191B Forensics Activity, Persuasion
COMM 191J Forensics Judging
COMM 195 Communication in the Age of Mobility
COMM 202 Rhetorical-Critical Studies in Communication
COMM 295 Computers, Discipline, and Resistance
COMM 298 Special Studies
COMM 299 Thesis Hours
Ohio University, Athens, OH
School of Interpersonal Communication
InCo 103 Introduction to Public Speaking
InCo 117 Introduction to Forensics
InCo 205 Techniques of Small Group Communication
InCo 217 Advanced Forensics
InCo 234 Communication Theory
InCo 430/530 Communication and Campaigns
Ohio University, Athens, OH
Academic Advancement Center
Introduction to Public Speaking - 1995 and 1996 summer programs, This course was designed for incoming students designated "at risk" by Ohio University. Along with public speaking, the course introduced students to web page design and college research methods.
Ohio University, Athens, OH
Continuing Education Department
Project Challenge - Future Studies. 1995 summer program, first through sixth grade. Three age-specific courses addressed utopian literature, science fiction writing, city planning, and collaborative problem solving techniques.
Thesis Committee Service
Janet Baker (Chair)
Robert Barlow
James Bunker
William Tran (Chair)
Sarah Vital (Chair)
Forthcoming Thesis Committee Service
Alexander Kramer
Project Committee Service
Aviv Brahm
Sarah Kates
Prinda Nilthachan (Chair)
Nick Zoffel
Forthcoming Thesis Committee Service
Carol-Lynn Zwycewicz (Chair)
Graduate Exam Committee Service
Melissa Barrett (Chair)
Rosalie Eskew
Phoebe Kitanidis (Chair)
Chang-Yu Lee
Haige Quian
Gina Rollings
Cory Shelton (Chair)
Hye-Jung Yoon
Research in Progress
Wood, A. “What happens [in Vegas]”: Performing the post-tourist flâneur in “New York” and “Paris”. Manuscript revised for Text and Performance Quarterly.
Todd, A.M. & Wood, A. "Flex your power": Energy crises and the shifting rhetoric of the grid. Manuscript revised for Atlantic Journal of Communication.
Wood, A. The Ubiquitous City: Airports, Hotels, and Malls as Omnitopia. Manuscript under development.
Books
Wood, A, & Smith, M. (2005). Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture - Second Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Wood, A. (2004). New York's 1939-40 World's Fair. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
Wood, A. (2004) Motel America: A State By State Tour Guide to Nostalgic Stopovers. Portland OR: Collectors Press.
Smith, M. & Wood, A. (2003). Survivor Lessons: Communication Issues Under a Watchful Eye. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
Wood, A. (2003). Road Trip America: A State By State Guide to Offbeat Destinations. Portland OR: Collectors Press.
Wood, A. & Smith, M. (2001). Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Smith, J., & Wood, A. (1998). Communication and Campaigns. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Wood, A. & Todd, A.M. (2005). "Are we there yet?": Searching for Springfield and the Simpsons' rhetoric of omnitopia. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22, 207-222.
Wood, A. (in press) "The best surprise is no surprise": Architecture, imagery, and omnitopia among American mom and pop motels. Manuscript accepted for Space and Culture.
Wood, A. (2004). Managing the Lady Managers: The shaping of heterotopian spaces in the 1893 Chicago Exposition's Woman's Building. Southern Communication Journal, 69, 289-302.
Wood, A., & Fassett, D. (2003). Remote control: Identity, power and technology in the communication classroom. Communication Education 52, 286-296.
Wood, A. (2003). A rhetoric of ubiquity: Terminal space as omnitopia. Communication Theory, 13, 324-344.
Wood, A. (2003). The Middletons, Futurama, and Progressland: Disciplinary technology and temporal heterotopia in two twentieth century New York world's fairs. New Jersey Journal of Communication, 11, 63-75.
Wood, A., & Adams, T. (1997). Making sense of the 1994 right-wing revolution in the United States: How the Christian right, the grand old political action committee (GOPAC), and talk radio unknowingly collaborated. Speaker and Gavel, 34, 51-63.
Adams, T., & Wood, A. (1996). The 'unfair burden' presented by database access deficiency: The emerging role of LEXIS/NEXIS and the internet in forensics research. The Forensic, 81, 21-35.
Book Chapters
Wood, A. (2002). Re-reading Disney's celebration: Gendered topography in a heterotopian pleasure garden. L. Sanders, A. Bingaman, & R. Zorach's Embodied utopias: Gender, social change, and the modern metropolis (pp. 188-203): Routledge.
Wood, A., & Adams, T. (1998). Embracing the machine: Quilt and quilting as community-building architecture. B. Ebo's Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? – Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (pp. 219-233): Praeger/Greenwood Press.
Book Review
Wood, A. (2003). Review of Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web. American Journal of Psychology, 116, 477-483.
Invited Biographical Essay
Wood, A. (1999). Austin Tappan Wright. American National Biography, vol. 24, (pp. 3-4): Oxford University Press.
Editorials
Wood, A., & Coopman, S. (1999, May). Virtual job seekers and electronic front porches: A conversation from both sides of the hiring process. American Communication Journal: Available online:
McKerrow, R., Wood, A., & Smith, M. (1998, May). Publishing on-line: Challenging standards of hiring, promotion, and tenure. American Communication Journal: Available online:
Invited Articles
Wood, A. (in press) Motel moderne. Society for Commercial Archeology Journal.
Wood, A. (2004, August/September). Grand motel. American Heritage, 11-12.
Wood, A. (1995). Beyond the round of competition: making connections (part two) -- the forensics newsletter. SpeakerPoints, 2(1).
Richardson, R., & Wood, A. (1994). Small-budget forensics programs: Problems and solutions. SpeakerPoints, 1(1).
Published Speeches
Wood, A. (1997). Superbugs: Scourge of the post-antibiotic era. Reprinted in B. E. Gronbeck, R. E. McKerrow, D. Ehninger, & A. H. Monroe's Principles and Types of Speech Communication.
Wood, A. (1996). Superbugs: Scourge of the post-antibiotic era, Reprinted in G. Rodman's Public Speaking in the Media/information age. Also appeared in video supplement, Public Speeches for Analysis II.
Academic Presentations, Respondent
The productive intersections between everyday life and media. Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
Academic Presentations, Chair and Moderator
Moving forward in understanding reality television: Looking back at Survivor: All-stars. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Renegade organizations: Communicating off-center in our communities. Western States Communication Association, Sacramento, CA, 2000.
Philosophical approaches to individual events instruction: Beyond paint-by-numbers performance. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.
Cyberscam: Persuasion, deception, or just plain greed? American Communication Association, Reno NV, 1998.
New forms of historical analysis. Sixth Biennial Conference on Public Address, Iowa City, IA, 1998.
Academic Presentations and Panels, Presenter
Wood, A. “What happens [in Vegas]”: Performing the post-tourist flâneur in “New York” and “Paris”.
National Communication Association, Boston, MA, 2005. [forthcoming]
Todd, A.M., & Wood, A. (2005). Flex your power: Energy crises and the shifting power of the grid. Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Wood, A., & Smith, M. (2004). Short course: How to teach the college course in computer-mediated communication. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (2004). Sputniks, tiki gods, and neon cowboys: Architecture and imagery of postwar mom and pop motels. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (2004). Multimedia, self-referentiality, and the iconic/ironic pose: contemporary themes in reality television research. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. & Todd, A.M. (2004). "Are we there yet?" Searching for Springfield and The Simpsons' rhetoric of place. Diane Lamude-Furno Top Paper Award. Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM.
Wood, A., & Fassett, D. (2003). Remote control: Identity, power and technology in the communication classroom. National Communication Association, Miami, FL.
Wood, A., & Smith, M. (2002). Short course: How to teach the college course in computer-mediated communication. National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Wood, A. (2002). From terminal space to cyberspace: A rhetoric of omnitopia. National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Wood, A., & Smith, M. (2001). Short course: How to teach the college course in computer-mediated communication. National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.
Wood, A. (2001). The opportunities/challenges of globalism for graduate programs with international and minority students. National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.
Wood, A. (2001). "More human than human": The rhetoric of homo faber in popular film. Internet Research 2.0: INTERconnections, Minneapolis, MN.
Wood, A. (2001). Futurama and progressland: Fluid locale as temporal heterotopia at the twentieth century New York world's fairs. Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Smith, M., Wood, A., & Nix, C. (2000). Engaging one another on-line: student collaboration on a cyberforum. National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Wood, A. (2000). Individual events education: Engaging the e-world. National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Wood, A. (2000). American communication journal online: History and issues. Association of Internet Researchers, Lawrence, KS.
Wander, P., & Wood, A. (2000). Online publishing and student scholarship. Western States Communication Association, Sacramento, CA.
Wood, A. (1999). ‘The world is not like Celebration’: Rhetorical displacement and replacement in Disney's Celebration. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (1999). Click here and you're there: Exploring and teaching metaphors on-line. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (1999). Experiencing intimacy in isolation: Webpage creators and the construction of asynchronous relationships. Eastern Communication Association, Charleston, WV.
Wood, A. (1999). Uncovering dystopian foundations: Deceptive agency in Disney’s Celebration. Embodied Utopias Conference, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (1999). Hiding the machine in the garden: Disciplining the feminine in Disney's Celebration. Western States Communication Association, Vancouver, Canada.
Wood, A. (1998). "Spaghetti dinners and fireflies in a jar": Shaping paradoxical places in Disney's Celebration. National Communication Association, New York, NY.
Schaaf, B., Wood, A., & Nix, C. (1998). Hyper-performance among internet support group users: Geography, performance, and power within therapeutic locales. INPR New Scholars Pre-Conference, Norman, OK.
Wood, A. (1998). "Get your clicks on route 66": Rebuilding community and the mother road, online. Eastern Communication Association, Saratoga Springs, NY.
McKerrow, R., Wood, A., & Smith, M. (1998). Publishing on-line: Challenging standards of hiring, promotion, and tenure. Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
Wood, A. (1998). Managing the lady managers: The topology of discourse in the 1893 Chicago Exposition's Woman's Building. Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
Wood, A. (1998). Club women and the City Beautiful Movement: Creating discursive spaces, rebuilding civic places. Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
Wood, A. (1998). Route 66 as nostalgic space: Transcendence, recreation, and danger on the Mother Road. Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
Wood, A. (1997). The commodification of the city: Shifting attitudes toward the built environment in depression-era American magazine advertisements. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A., & Smith, J. (1997). House speaker Henry Clay's nationalism as unification: An extension of transcendent eloquence. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
Wood, A. (1997). Clipped hedges and dark walks: Deceptive artlessness in Fanny Burney's Evelina. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Honorable Mention, Feminist and Women's Studies division poster session competition.
Wood, A., & Westerfelhaus, R. (1997). Electronic pilgrimages to virtual shrines: Community, isolation, and the expression of grief at an internet site. Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.
Wood, A. (1996). Embracing the machine: Quilt and quilting as community-building architecture. Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Wood, A. (1996). The matriarchate, the solitude of self, and the Woman's Bible: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's feminist jeremiad. Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Adams, T., & Wood, A. (1996). Homesteading the virtual frontier: Computer-mediated opportunities for the Southern States Communication Association. Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Lee, J., & Wood, A. (1996). "But where is it?": A communication theory course teaches orienteering in cyberspace. The Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Computers and Writing, netWORKS: Connecting learners across the curriculum, Blacksburg, VA.
Aden, R., Brown, T., Lacroix, C., & Wood, A. (1995). The 'true lies' of True Lies: Technology as man's domain. Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
Wood, A. (1995). An electronic field of dreams: Electronic mail as protest medium. Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
Wood, A. (1994). Beyond the round of competition: Making connections (part two) -- the forensics newsletter. Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Wood, A. (1993). "I won't say uncle": An ideographic perspective on Russian president Boris Yeltsin's appeal for congressional aid. Georgia Speech Communication Association, Augusta, GA. Top Student Paper.
Wood, A. (1993). Shifting paradigms: The role of role-playing in the teaching activity. Florida Communication Association, Clearwater, FL.
Clark, B., & Wood, A. (1991). Coaching secrets: Two-year colleges can compete with universities -- and should. Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.
Grants
San José State University Sabbatical leave, Spring 2005
San José State University College of Social Sciences Foundation Research Grant, 2004
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 2004
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 2003
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 2002
San José State University AIM grant, 2002
San José State University College of Social Sciences Junior Faculty Development Grant, 2001
San José State University College of Social Sciences Foundation Research Grant, 2001
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 2001
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 2000
San José State University Institute for Teaching and Learning Champions Grant for implementation of a web-based assessment system, 2000
San José State University Department of Communication Studies Personal Initiative in Technology Grant, 2000
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for convention travel, 1999
California State University Information Competence Work Group Summer Fellowship for conference attendance: Summer Workshop for CSU faculty, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1999. One of four CSU fellows selected. Project Website:
San José State University College of Social Sciences Diversity Grant for conference attendance: International Congress on Challenges to Education, Belize City, Belize, 1999
University of Chicago. Full funding for Embodied Utopias conference presentation,
1999
San José State University Institute for Teaching and Learning Champions Grant for implementation of a web-based assessment system, 1999
San José State University Institute for Teaching and Learning Champions Grant for development of a web-based assessment system, 1998-1999
San José State University Lottery Professional Development Grant for creation of a departmental graphics workstation, 1998
Off Campus Invited Lectures
Easy Going Travel Shop and bookstore. A road trip through America's past
2004
Indiana University, South Bend. Yesterday’s tomorrows: Imagining nationalism, race, and the future at the 1939-40 New York world’s fair, 2001
On Campus Invited Lectures
Dept. Colloquium "New directions in Internet Research" (with Dr. Matthew Smith), 2002
ANTH/MUSE 15D Disney's Celebration: From utopia to heterotopia, 2002
COMM 202 The rhetoric of omnitopia, 2002
COMM 200 Popularizing academic research, 1999
COMM 101 Metaphors and "shape" in computer mediated environments, 1998
COMM 101 Cybertopia or cyberghetto: An introduction to CMC, 1998
COMM 144 Disney's Celebration: Shaping behavior through architecture, 1998
COMM 149 Online publishing in rhetorical and public deliberation, 1998
COMM 200 Shaping the relationship between physical space and cyberspace, 1998
Workshops Offered
Department of Communication Studies. Impromptu Speaking (offered as COMM 80): Spring, 2004
Center for Faculty Development. Free online tools, 2000, 2001
Center for Faculty Development. Online research data management, 2000
Center for Faculty Development. Streamlining the collection of assessment data using web-based application service providers (co-authored with Rona Halualani), 2000
McNair Scholars Program. Online grad school tools, 2000
Collaborative Training Institute. Professional communication - Presentation and management skills, 1999
College of Social Sciences. Building information competence in the College of Social Sciences (co-facilitated with Dr. Lydia Ortega), 1999
McNair Scholars Program. Online grad school tools, 1999
McNair Scholars Program. Crafting your online presence (workshop series), 1999
Institute for Teaching and Learning. Enhancing student-outcome assessment through the WWW (co-facilitated with Rona Halualani, Susan Murray, Christopher Hebert, and David Asquith), 1999
Department of Communication Studies. Our front porch: Exploring and assessing the Communication Studies dept. website (co-facilitated with Stephanie Coopman), 1999
Department of Communication Studies. Surf's up: Beginning research on the web (offered as COMM 80): Spring, 1999, Fall 1998
Department of Communication Studies. Searching for strands of the world wide web: A staff workshop in computer mediated communication, 1998
Department of Communication Studies. Web-augmented classroom instruction: A faculty workshop in computer mediated communication, 1998
University, College, and Departmental Service - Chair/coordinator
University
Communication in the Information Age Minor Committee, San José State University
2001-
Area D1 Peer Review Group, San José State University MUSE program
2001-2002
College
Website Advisory Committee, College of Social Sciences
2003-2004
Department
Graduate Program, Department of Communication Studies
2001-2004
Media Policy Committee, Department of Communication Studies
2000-2004
Five-Year Program Planning Document, Department of Communication Studies
2002-2003
COMM 105 Assessment Committee, Department of Communication Studies
1998-2002.
Website maintainer, Department of Communication Studies
1998-2003
Other University Service
Heritage, Preservation, and Public History Committee, San José State University
2005-
Information Technology Board, San José State University
2002-2004
University Library Board, San José State University
2002-2004
Peer Mentor Evaluation Committee, University MUSE program
2003
Committee on the formation on a Minor: Survey Research Methods, San José State University 2001-2002
Faculty-in-Residence for Technology, San José State University Center for Faculty Development 2000-2001
Special Committee on Academic Information Technology, Academic Senate
2000-2001
New Faculty Orientation panelist, San José State University
2000
Faculty Mentor Program, San José State University
1998-1999
Other College Service
Computer Lab Advisory Committee, College of Social Sciences
1998-2000
Other Department Service
Chair Review Committee, Department of Communication Studies
2004
Recruitment Committee, Department of Communication Studies
2002-2003
Hiring Committee, Radio Manager position, Department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre 2001
Chair Review Committee, Department of Communication Studies
2000
Faculty Merit Increase Committee, Department of Communication Studies
1999-2000
Curriculum Committee, Department of Communication Studies
1998-1999
Academic Consulting
Allyn & Bacon
Mayfield Press
Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges
Wadsworth Publishing
Journal Reviewing
Communication Yearbook (editorial board member)
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Communication Education
Atlantic Journal of Communication
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Florida Journal of Communication
Selected Professional Service
Panelist, “Now What? Choosing and using your graduate program” Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Reader, Media Studies Group, Western States Communication Association, 2005
Critic, Hayward Conference on Rhetorical Criticism, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
Reader, American Studies Commission, National Communication Association, 2000
Co-editor, Book Reviews, American Communication Journal, 1998-2000
Member, Board of Directors, American Communication Association, 1998-2000
Editor, Outgoing, a booklet designed to aid graduate students in Ohio University's School of Interpersonal Communication as they prepare to enter the job market, 1998
Reader, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association, 1998
Chair, Limited Preparation Questions Committee, Ohio Forensics Association, 1997
Creator, World Wide Web Guide, a booklet that provided guidance on student-built webpages in three communication theory courses, 1996
Creator, Rhetoric Resources and Gender Studies Resources webpages, Southern States Communication Association home page, 1995
Creator, department website, Ohio University School of Interpersonal Communication, 1995
Selected Community Service Projects
Presenter: Road Trip America, San José State University (Provost) Scholars Series, 2003
Presenter: The Best and Worst Places to Stay, San José State University Alumni College, 2003
Round table participant: Balancing life and work, San José State University School of Nursing, 2003
Faculty Advisor, Zeta Chi Epsilon Fraternity, 2000-2002
Round table participant: Provost forum on information technology in the curriculum, 1999
Presenter of keynote address: Small group communication and conflict resolution, Athens County Middle School, 1998
Trainer/presenter: Persuasion--A means to the end of suppression in Burma, Free Burma Coalition, Athens, OH, 1997
Trainer/presenter: Breaking the ice--Connecting with students and making a difference, Students Teaching Against Racism, Athens, OH, 1995
Related Professional Experience
Webpage designer for ExecutivEdge, Los Gatos, CA, 1999-2000
Webpage designer for East Side Books, San José, CA, 1998-1999
Web page designer for Eclipse Interactive Publishing, Inc., Dublin, OH, 1996-1997
Webpage designer for Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH, 1996
Assistant producer, video department of Berry College Public Relations Office, 1992-1994
Broadcast journalist, Navy Broadcasting Service Detachment, Rota, Spain, 1987-1990
Media interviews (since 1998)
Chicago Daily Herald, interviewed about Illinois Route 12 motels, July 17, 2005
Silicon Valley Business Journal, interviewed about media convergence, August 20, 2004
KGO Radio, interviewed about my book: Motel America, July 27, 2004
Denver Post, featured in article about motels, July 25, 2004 (article reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle, October 3, 2004; Dallas Morning News, October 17, 2004)
KEZW Radio, interviewed about my book: Motel America, July 8, 2004
Doctor's Review (Canada), reprint of my 2002 USA Today article on motels, July 2004
Teen People, quoted in article about road trips, June, 2004
National Public Radio Talk of the Nation, interviewed about my book: Motel America, May 27, 2004
Sunday Oregonian, Motel America review, May 2, 2004
Boston Globe, Motel America review, April 25, 2004
ANG Newspapers, quoted in article about cell phones, October 19, 2003
Burlington Free Press, interviewed about Vermont motels, September 21, 2003
Travel Talk Radio quoted in syndicated radio show about my book: Road Trip America, September 21, 2003
KGO Radio, interviewed about my book: Road Trip America, September 13, 2003
KSJS Radio, interviewed by provost about my book: Road Trip America, August 5, 2003
Silicon Valley Business Ink, interviewed about my book: Road Trip America, July 18-24, 2003
Denver Post, quoted in an article about my book: Road Trip America, July 13, 2003
Oakland Tribune, quoted in an article about cell phones, June 8, 2003
Life after Fifty, quoted in syndicated radio show regarding my book: Road Trip America, May 17, 2003
KNTV-TV, quoted in news broadcast about the 30th anniversary of cell phones, April 3, 2003
Spokane Spokesman Review, quoted in article about Idaho motels, January 3, 2003
Washington Square, featured in article about Motel Americana website, Winter 2002
Swedish Svenska Dagbladet Onsdag, quoted in article about motels, November 27, 2002
BBC4 Radio Excess Baggage, quoted in radio broadcast about motels, November 23, 2002
San José Mercury News, quoted in article about teen cell phone use, June 16, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle, quoted in article about Bay Area art deco architecture, May 29, 2002
USA Today, featured in article about motels and (on same date, different article) quoted in article about Holiday Inn as pop culture icon, May 24, 2002
Salon Magazine, quoted in article about Holiday Inn as pop culture icon, April 29, 2002
AAA Via Magazine, featured in article about motel travel, March/April, 2002
Los Angeles Times, featured in article about quirky websites, February 17, 2002
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Motel Americana website featured in article about roadside motels, January 13, 2002
CNNMoney, Motel Americana website featured in article about offbeat travel websites, December 14, 2001
KQED Radio, Perspectives radio commentary on the need to practice the art of face-to-face conversation, October 1, 2001
KPIX-TV, quoted in news broadcast exploring the social implications of decreasing access to pay phones, August 29, 2001
San José Mercury News, featured in David Plotnikoff’s Short Takes column, February 16, 2001
Fresno Bee, quoted in an article regarding the depiction of technology in 2001: A Space Odyssey, December 31, 2000
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, quoted in article regarding science fiction and popular culture, December 26, 2000
KPIX-TV, quoted in a news broadcast regarding internet hate sites, October 18, 2000
KGO Radio, critic for presidential debate, October 3, 2000
Associated Press, quoted in article regarding Association of Internet Researchers' inaugural conference, September 17, 2000. Article reprinted in USA Today
National Public Radio Morning Edition, quoted in radio broadcast regarding changing attitudes toward utopia in the twentieth century, December 30, 1999
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, quoted in article regarding world's fairs and modernism, November 12, 1999
Spectra – a publication of the National Communication Association, quoted in full-page article regarding Woz Way, an online course project co-edited with Dr. Phil Wander, October 1999
San José Mercury News, quoted in article regarding Woz Way, an online course project co-edited with Dr. Phil Wander, March 28, 1999
Florida Public Radio, quoted in radio broadcast regarding motels in popular culture, March 16, 1999
KGO-TV, quoted in news broadcast regarding Intel email injunction, December 4, 1998
Selected Awards/Acknowledgments
Diane Lamude-Furno Top Paper Award, Western States Communication Association Media Studies Group (with Anne Marie Todd), 2004
Provost's International Scholars Award (full funding for research on Chinese internet usage), 2002
National Forensics Association Hall of Fame, 2002
Paul H. Boase Family Rhetorical Scholar Award, 1998
Terry Conry and Lynn John Graduate Student Conference Award, 1996
National champion, persuasive speaking, Interstate Oratorical Association, 1994
National champion, pentathlon, persuasive speaking, National Forensic Association, 1994
National champion, rhetorical criticism, extemporaneous speaking, after dinner speaking, Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha forensics honor society, 1994
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1994
Student of the Year, St. Petersburg Junior College (Clearwater Campus), 1992
Phi Theta Kappa Bierkoe Distinguished Student Award (one of twenty-five recipients selected nationwide), 1992
Who's Who in American Junior Colleges, 1992
Professional Memberships
National Communication Association
Western States Communication Association
Society for Commercial Archeology
Honorary Society Inductions
Phi Kappa Phi
Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha
Phi Theta Kappa
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